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Lucky Marriott's Great America wasn't built in Howard County, Maryland even though there used to be a theme park in Howard County (Ellicott City) called The Enchanted Forest. Great America was not the only park to fail to get the Mannassas, VA land, Disney's America was planned and failed to be buil...

I remember seeing the Fabulous 50's show at Gurnee's Marriott's Great America in September 1979 (which was the first year I went to the Gurnee Marriott's Great America)!

Was there ever a Marriott hotel near the Santa Clara Marriott's Great America? The Gurnee Marriott's Great America never had a Marriott hotel nearby, but it was a few blocks from a Holiday Inn hotel.

But what does the current Paramount's Great America sign look like? Also: When Marriott sold the Great America parks: The Gurnee park sold to Six Flags kept the Looney Tunes characters (and a year later incorporated the Looney Tunes characters to the other Six Flags parks) while the Santa Clara park...

The "A Bally Company" sign was added to the bottom when in 1984 Marriott's Great America became Six Flags Great America. Bally later sold the Six Flags theme parks to Time Warner, which much later sold the Six Flags parks to Premier Parks.

JW65: The "rides are great..." line you gave was from the same 1976/1977 "Country of Fun" jingle for Great America.

Among the things at Marriott's Great America Fort Fun:
Punching Bag Forest
Ball Crawl
Cloud Bounce
Upside Down House
King of the Hill
Cable Slides
King of the Hill
Patchwork puppet theatre

Besides Marriott's Great America, do you remember in the same 1976-1984 period the other rival theme parks in the areas of: Santa Clara/San Francisco/San Jose areas: Marine World/Africa USA, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Frontier Village, Santa's Village, the original Winchester Blvd. in San Jose Chuc...

Does anyone remember the 1977 Dennis the Menace Bonus Magazine Series comic book issue titled "Dennis the Menace at Marriott's Great America"?

I still have a Bugs Bunny Great America patriotic outfit plush doll I bought in 1982. I remember also seeing the a plush doll of Great America Patriotic outfit Bugs Bunny in the Montgomery Ward 1985 Christmas catalog (which was the last catalog the Montgomery Ward store chain made before shutting do...

I wish there was a DVD of 1976-1984 footage from Marriott's Great America parks and the 1976-1984 Marriott's Great America TV commercials (almost all of them).

Burgers on the Run served Road Runner Hamburgers, Wile E. Coyote Cheeseburgers, and Tweety Hot Dogs.

How can you explain differences between Traffique Jam and Barney Oldfield Speedway? Both are drive your own car rides.

Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse were created in the late 1960's by Warner Bros. for the last years of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts after the WB studios were bought by Seven Arts. Don't know if Honey Bunny would be a forerunner to Lola Bunny (first introduced in Warner Bros. 19...

For the Bugs Bunny walkarounds used at the Great America theme parks: Why did they make Bugs Bunny dressed in an American flag top hat and vest jacket suit outfit? After the Gurnee Great America switched from Marriott's to Six Flags and kept the Looney Tunes walkaround characters, the Bugs Bunny wal...